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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what did the latticework arch between the two pillars at Wounded Knee remind Nerburn?
(a) The entrance to amusement parks.
(b) The entrance to a rich person's home in the east.
(c) The tracery over Nazi death camps.
(d) The entrance to a western ranch.

2. What did Dan say Nerburn thought too much about?
(a) Women.
(b) The weather.
(c) Possessions.
(d) Time.

3. How did Danelle's parents die?
(a) In an airplane crash.
(b) They were shot but the police said a car accident.
(c) They were lost and died of starvation.
(d) From smallpox.

4. What did the English want from the Indians?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Land.
(d) Furs.

5. How was the land to the east of the Missouri river different from the land to the west?
(a) It was formed by a glacier.
(b) It was a land of freedom rather than labor.
(c) It was a land of dreamers.
(d) It was more fertile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a woman did Nerburn perceive Annie to be?

2. What did Grover do when they got back on the road?

3. What did the French want from the Indians?

4. What question did Nerburn ask the Indian which he shouldn't have asked?

5. What adjective did Dan use to describe the hills where they were parked?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Annie's house.

2. Describe what was in the bundle Grover took out of his trunk that he and Dan unwrapped in Chapter 12, "Welcome to Our Land"?

3. According to Dan, why are white people in trouble?

4. What was the difference between Lincoln and Jesus in Dan's eyes?

5. What stood in the middle of the plot that was through the pillars?

6. Why was Thoreau mentioned in the conversation?

7. What did Dan take out of his large bag four times during the time he circled the fenced area?

8. Dan said the white people had made them blanket Indians hanging around the trading post for handouts. What did he say they were now?

9. Describe Danelle and Delvin, Dan's other granddaughter and her husband.

10. What did the Indian couple that was in the restaurant in the Homestead town do to disgrace Indians?

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